The Bible mentions “the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life”. I notice there is no mention of the “lost of the ear” or “the lust of the nose”. Is there some stronger aspect of the “lust of the eye”? Is there some particular way this sense has more power to be damaging? Is it wired more directly into the thoughts and emotions?.
The naked body is of the eye, but music is of the ear. You can sexually arouse yourself by seeing or imagining visual scenes. Can you sexually arouse yourself through music only? Today's options include music videos. If you heard the music without ever seeing the video, could you get the same impressions (thoughts, emotions and feelings) as you would while also seeing the video?
The song, “The Song Remembers When”, talks of a song being able to evoke a strong memory of a past event. In reality that event had a host of other senses tagged to it - - not the least of which is what you saw when the event occurred.
I'll bet ten different people get ten different impressions from a piece of music. But if all ten saw a video with the music they would all get the same impression - - the vision of the one who made the video (but not necessarily of the one who made the music).
There are events inside the head of the listener that are not the same as the events inside the song writer.
